Urban Crisis: Restructuring Informal Settlements

This lecture discusses the urban crisis in African cities, focusing on the restructuring of informal settlements due to a disruption in the accumulation cycle of exploitation rent from agricultural and mining products. It explores manifestations such as slowing urban projects, public debt crisis, and the imposition of Structural Adjustment Programs by International Financial Institutions, leading to increased exclusion of the poor. The lecture also examines the fragmentation and compartmentalization of spaces into center/periphery, ethnic, and rich/poor neighborhoods.